These blender pots?

[solspirit]

Opinions of these, please.

https://a.co/d/7yV558J

 

[Artie]

I've used them. They work. I always start with few drops of Deoxit in each wafer. They're "if-fy" about fitting in an LP. Best used with a pickguard or control plate.

 

[magillver]

I would say that it depends on what your intent is. I've found that they don't tend to 'blend' very much, since you end up with full signal up to the center detent, then your initial signal drops away very quickly and you're immediately at full volume with your second signal. For actually blending between 2 signals, I've started using just a normal linear pot, with the 2 incoming signals on the outside lugs, and using the center lug as the output. Did that make sense?

 

[beaubrummels]

I use the CTS version. Works for my purposes. It all depends on what you are blending.

 

[solspirit]

I'm not even sure how I'm going to use them yet. I just bought bunch of stuff that I'm going to play around with. Push/push pots, a few different types of blender pots, and several lifetimes worth of resistors & capacitors.

 

[Hank-]

Those are PAN pots. From center position you can do add & cut on either side of the dial depending on how you see using it.

You could call them blender pots in a way, you can add bridge to neck while cutting on the amount of bridge signal and vice versa if ya get what I mean.

 

[Artie]

I would say that it depends on what your intent is. I've found that they don't tend to 'blend' very much, since you end up with full signal up to the center detent, then your initial signal drops away very quickly and you're immediately at full volume with your second signal. For actually blending between 2 signals, I've started using just a normal linear pot, with the 2 incoming signals on the outside lugs, and using the center lug as the output. Did that make sense?

That's exactly what the old ES-340 does. It's a shame that about half of the one's you find for sale, have been rewired for ES-335 wiring. (Normal LP wiring.)

 

[solspirit]

That's exactly what the old ES-340 does. It's a shame that about half of the one's you find for sale, have been rewired for ES-335 wiring. (Normal LP wiring.)

Yeah, I've seen several articles on the wiring from different eras.

 

[solspirit]

I would say that it depends on what your intent is. I've found that they don't tend to 'blend' very much, since you end up with full signal up to the center detent, then your initial signal drops away very quickly and you're immediately at full volume with your second signal. For actually blending between 2 signals, I've started using just a normal linear pot, with the 2 incoming signals on the outside lugs, and using the center lug as the output. Did that make sense?

Perfect sense, thanks.

 

[Artie]

Yeah, I've seen several articles on the wiring from different eras.

I have a modded version that fixes all of the original ES-340's "problems." But that's another subject.

 

[solspirit]

Those are PAN pots. From center position you can do add & cut on either side of the dial depending on how you see using it.

You could call them blender pots in a way, you can add bridge to neck while cutting on the amount of bridge signal and vice versa if ya get what I mean.

Cool, thanks, I'm learning.

 

[magillver]

Just for reference, this is what the M/N taper looks like, just a bit of audible blend on either side of center...